AskWhy!

Random thoughts and ideas to better understand the Universe as it really is, rather than persisting in delusion, no matter how reassuring the delusion feels to my soul.

Friday, April 21, 2006

But They Laughed At Alfred Wegener!

Pseudoscience abounds! Many methodologies and ideas are dressed up as science but are not put through carefully controlled and thoughtfully interpreted experiments. But what about Alfred Wegener in 1912? The scientists almost tarred and feathered him after his crazy idea was written. The continents once connected then later "drifting" apart? Please!
With continued questioning, investigating and testing plate tectonics was born. http://www.hartrao.ac.za/geodesy/tectonics.html
Read more stories of scientists like J.J. Thomson, Galileo and others who were falsely ridiculed only to be later recognized.
http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html

Sunday, April 16, 2006

PseudoScience Abounds!

Interested in UFOs, EVPs, Ghosts, Government Conspiracies, etc. This site is for you. I just spent the last 5 hours lying in bed (not being able to sleep) listening to Art Bell.
Listen to AM 1450, From 11:00PM - 7:00AM Nightly
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Theodore Roosevelt 1907